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Show your orchids!

mort said:
I've got one of those in flower at the moment as well @foxfish , it flowers this time every year. It's a rhipsalis but I can't remember which one off the top of my head.

Edit, Rhipsalis pilocarpa Rhipsalis pilocarpa | hairy-fruited wickerware cactus Conservatory Greenhouse/RHS Gardening
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OK thanks, I bought a pot from B&Q last year and it has grown like a weed, the one in the picture is just a cutting that I hung up to see what would happen.
I have a feeling it will really take off this coming year, no heat just in my outdoor party house.
 
foxfish said:
OK thanks, I bought a pot from B&Q last year and it has grown like a weed, the one in the picture is just a cutting that I hung up to see what would happen.
I have a feeling it will really take off this coming year, no heat just in my outdoor party house.
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I have 5-6 different rhipsalis, all grown from tiny cuttings and they all grow like weeds.
 
There is an orchid festival in Kew gardens that starts today, if anyone lives up that way. Would be a great day out for anyone who likes orchids.

Orchids | Kew

Celebrate the richness of Costa Rica with Kew Gardens' annual orchid festival. Our stunning horticultural displays bring to life the incredible biodiversity of Central America through the culture and colours of a country home to 6% of the world's flora and fauna species.
www.kew.org www.kew.org
 
Ehcosbie said:
There is an orchid festival in Kew gardens that starts today, if anyone lives up that way. Would be a great day out for anyone who likes orchids.

Orchids | Kew

Celebrate the richness of Costa Rica with Kew Gardens' annual orchid festival. Our stunning horticultural displays bring to life the incredible biodiversity of Central America through the culture and colours of a country home to 6% of the world's flora and fauna species.
www.kew.org www.kew.org
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They have one every year. It’s spectacular.
 
I must admit @Hufsa i'm normally a fan of the more subtle flowers but that one did stand out to me. I remember buying my mum a, what i thought was interesting, more wild type mottled flower yellow and brown species and the first thing she did was chop off all the flowers because she assumed it had gone over.

a few more from this year, all cheap bargain plants that needed tlc. Never paid more than a fiver for an orchid and the big flower one was cheaper than what i used for scale🙂


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Hi all,
mort said:
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That one is Ornithogalum dubium. I had it for a while in the glasshouse, but it failed to re-appear one spring.

cheers Darrel
 
I think we have had it for a few years now Darrel and perhaps the key is my ability to forget to water things and complete ignorance in how to care for it. Tbh I didn't know it was troublesome until you said (didn't mean to post it either but must've got carried away). Now I know I'll probably kill it.
 
Hi all,
Apologies, because it is another couple of non-orchids, but these are "Scarborough "Lily"" (<"Cyrtanthus elatus"> formerly Vallota speciosa), at present in the tea room at work.

The Scarborough Lily is fantastically inappropriately named, because it is both S. African and an Amaryllid, but it is great house plant for a sunny window and virtually impossible to kill.

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And a <"Lipstick vine"> (Aeschynanthus radicans). The Lipstick Vine is actually my "cuttings pot" from earlier in the year, but I've failed to pot them on. These are a lot easier to kill, so it is worth having a spare.

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cheers Darrel
 
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